tralaticius Latin · revision 37001

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la trānsferō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [traː.ɫaːˈtiː.ki.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [tra.laˈtiː.t͡ʃi.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trālātīcius''' (feminine trālātīcia, neuter trālātīcium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ The fuller spelling ''trānslātīcius'' is also found, and the OLD enters the word under it;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder has ''-itius''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|trālātus|-īcius]], the first element being a variant of [[m|la|trānslātus|t=carried across, handed on]],^(Wiktionary) the perfect participle of [[transfero|alt=trānsferō]] “to carry across”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest examples are in Varro's ''On the Latin Language'', of words used in a transferred sense,^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) and in Cicero's letters, of a traditional clause (''alterum caput est trālātīcium'').^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Besides the grammatical sense, the word meant handed down from one's predecessors, traditional:^(OLD 2012) in the language of law and public life a ''trālātīcium ēdictum'' was an edict that a magistrate took over from those before him, as Cicero says of an old edict in the Verrines.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Phaedrus speaks of gods talking ''mōre trālātīciō'', after the traditional fashion.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ From this it came to mean commonplace, ordinary: Caelius writes to Cicero of the usual course of affairs as ''haec trālātīcia'',^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Petronius has a far from ordinary ugliness, Pliny the Elder says that birth in the eighth month is common in Egypt, and Suetonius speaks of an ordinary funeral.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) The adverb ''trānslātīciē'' “carelessly” is found in the Digest.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of words in a transferred sense.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a traditional clause.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD – Phaedrus has ''mōre trālātīciō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of ordinary ugliness.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius speaks of an ordinary funeral.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(of words)'' Used in a transferred sense, [[m|en|metaphorical]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Handed down from one's predecessors, [[m|en|traditional]], customary.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|commonplace|alt=Commonplace]], [[m|en|ordinary]], usual.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}